Daniele Tortora

Senior Software Engineer | Frontend & Full-Stack | AI Focused

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Email: danieletortora.contact@gmail.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danieletortora/ GitHub: https://github.com/floroz Website: https://danieletortora.netlify.app

Professional Summary

Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years building production applications with React, TypeScript, Next.js, Vue, Node.js. Led cross-functional teams to ship complex UIs and modern component libraries, designed scalable APIs in Node.js/Go, and passionate about building AI-powered applications that enhance user experiences.

Professional Experience

Full Stack Engineer

May 2024–-Present
SnykZürich, Switzerland - Hybrid
  • Led UI development for Snyk Code new product feature, Rule Extensions: an AI-assisted interface built in Vue.js and TypeScript, enabling enterprise customers to define custom SAST sanitizers. Delivered self-service workflows that saved security teams hundreds of hours and reduced manual effort across orgs.
  • Enhanced Snyk Open Source by designing and implementing AI-powered features for Deepcode AI (SCA) serving 500K+ daily scans. Architected and deployed microservices with REST APIs (JSON API spec, OpenAPI documentation) across multi-cloud Kubernetes clusters (AWS, GCP).
  • Designed Node.js/TypeScript worker‑thread architecture with supervision (error/exit handling, recycling), transferables for CPU‑bound payloads, and multi‑tier caching/backpressure—cut p95 latency 65%, delivered 3× throughput, and maintained SLOs without event‑loop blocking (Kubernetes, Datadog).
  • Won 3rd place company-wide at Snyk (>650 participants) for AI adoption: conducted deep exploration of AI tools, delivered company-wide presentation, created learning materials driving productivity improvements.

Tech Stack: Vue 3, React, TypeScript, Node.js, Go, Kubernetes, Vite, Playwright, Vitest, Storybook, Docker, AWS, GCP, Microservices, Real-time Data, Kafka, Datadog

Frontend Tech Lead

Feb 2023–-May 2024
FrontiersZürich, Switzerland - Remote
  • Led a team of 6 Frontend Engineers to build and launch Brink UI, a Vue 3 component library aligned to a new design system. Conducted cross-functional advocacy, collaborated with teams to understand requirements, designed component APIs, and gathered feedback for adoption. Reached alpha in 5 months; early adoption reduced UI delivery time by ~30% and increased cross-project consistency.
  • Owned CI/CD and release strategy (alpha/beta/stable) in a monorepo (Lerna, Nx, GitHub Actions, NPM). Established cross-functional release reviews with Design and QA, reducing defects and improving quality.
  • Researched/built tooling for framework compatibility (Vite, Nuxt.js, Tailwind). Built custom Storybook plugins (AST parsing) and contributed fixes/roadmap input to the Vue ecosystem.

Tech Stack: Vue 3, TypeScript, Storybook, Nx, Lerna, GitHub Actions, Docker, NPM, Nuxt.js, Tailwind, Vite, Cypress, Jest, Vitest, Testing Library

Frontend Engineer (Contract)

Jun 2022–-Feb 2023
Meta (Facebook)Zürich, Switzerland - Hybrid
  • Partnered with Mapillary Team post-acquisition on platform integration: defined migration roadmap and collaborated with stakeholders for phased rollout into Meta Web Infrastructure.
  • Led website rewrite (Next.js → React, PHP, Facebook CMS). Improved Accessibility +36%, Performance +17%, SEO +25%; reduced FCP −20% and LCP −60%. Implemented i18n across 24 languages for Mapillary apps (Angular, TypeScript).
  • Explored deployment of an independent design system/component library for Mapillary with Facebook/Instagram DS teams; evaluated a headless approach.

Tech Stack: React, TypeScript, PHP, Facebook CMS, Angular, Next.js, i18n, Jest

Senior Frontend Engineer

Nov 2021–-Jun 2022
TundraZürich, Switzerland - Hybrid
  • Enhanced WholesaleCoop.com security by architecting OAuth 2.0/JWT authentication strategy and implementing complete UI auth flow across Web and Chrome Extension, serving 10K+ B2B users with zero security incidents.
  • Directed Tundra.com migration to hybrid SSR/CSR rendering model using Next.js and React (TypeScript), improving Core Web Vitals by 20-40% (LCP: 2.8s → 1.7s, FID: 100ms → 60ms) and increasing conversion rate by 15%.
  • Optimized bundle size by 35% through code splitting and lazy loading strategies, reducing initial load time from 4.2s to 2.7s on 3G networks.

Tech Stack: React, Next.js, TypeScript, OAuth 2.0, JWT, Chrome Extension APIs, Docker, Webpack, Jest, Testing Library, Cypress

Senior Frontend Engineer

Jan 2021–-Oct 2021
Tray.aiLondon, UK - Remote
  • Architected Tray Docs platform migration from Gatsby to Next.js, building custom MDX compiler for interactive documentation pages. Reduced publishing time by 60% (from 25 to 10 minutes) and increased user engagement by 45%.
  • Implemented advanced search functionality using Algolia, improving documentation discoverability and reducing support tickets by 30%.

Tech Stack: Next.js, React, TypeScript, MDX, Algolia, Custom CMS integration, Docker, Jest

Software Developer

Sep 2016–-Jan 2021
OVO Energy | Noble Ltd | London Borough of HackneyLondon, UK - Hybrid
  • OVO: Built interactive geospatial/time-series UIs and maps across Web, Android, and iOS using React, React Native, Mapbox, and React Map GL. Noble: Contributed to Noble Vision, a real-time network threat dashboard; migrated from Electron desktop to web using React, Redux, TypeScript, and GraphQL. Hackney: Delivered web features using Angular, TypeScript, C#, and .NET Core.

Tech Stack: React, React Native, Redux, GraphQL, TypeScript, Angular, C#, .NET Core, Docker, Mapbox

Personal Projects

Stealth SaaS

Aug 2025--Present

Revolutionizing Online Learning experience with AI-powered tools.

Tech Stack: React, TypeScript, Next.js, Tailwind,Vercel, OpenAI, Supabase, PostgreSQL, Stripe, Inngest

Built a multilingual Italian tax calculation app for 2025 regulations; gained 800 active users in the first week.

Tech Stack: React, TypeScript, Tailwind, shadcn/ui

Education

Master of Science (MSc) in Clinical Psychology

2012-2015
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico IINaples, Italy

Grade: 110/110

Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Psychology

2008-2012
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico IINaples, Italy

Grade: 110/110

Technical Skills

Frontend Technologies: React, Vue.js, Next.js, Nuxt, Redux, TanStack Query, Angular, RxJS, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Tailwind CSS, Vite, Design Systems, Component Libraries, Storybook, Accessibility (WCAG)
Backend Technologies: Node.js, Go, Golang, Express.js, GraphQL, REST API, gRPC, WebSockets, Microservices Architecture, Distributed Systems
AI & Developer Tools: AI Integration, Cursor, Claude AI, Gemini, OpenAI APIs, Prompt Engineering
Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Amazon Web Services, GCP, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm, CI/CD, DevOps, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Observability, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Security (SAST, SCA, DevSecOps)
Data & Infrastructure: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, NATS, Message Queues
Testing: Playwright, Cypress, Testing Library, Jest, Vitest, Visual Regression Testing
Leadership & Process: Technical Leadership, Team Management, Agile, Scrum, Architecture Design, Code Review, Mentoring, Cross-functional Collaboration, Stakeholder Management